Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the head of the National Institutes of Health, has been named as the new acting director for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a White House official confirmed Wednesday.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been named as the new acting director for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is set to take over.

ATLANTA — The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is set to begin a two-day meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday in Atlanta, where members will consider potential changes to several key childhood and adult immunizations. The meeting comes as the agency faces ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ground zero in a battle over the size and scope of the federal government—and Atlanta is poised to feel the collateral damage. First came the April Fool’s Massacre—the April 1 firing of about 2,400 ...

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89.

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